Improvement in combined blind and sash fasteners



.wi o. POND; Combined Blinda nd Sash Fasteners.

Patented March 3. 1874.

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UNITE STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM O. POND, OF MOBILE, ALABAMA.-

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED BLlND AND SASH FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. id 8,138, dated March 3, 1874; application filed January 10, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, WILLIAM O. POND, of Mobile, in the county of Mobile and State of Alabama, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Blind and Sash Fastening, of which the following is a specification:

. This-invention relates to new and useful improvements in the fastenings of window blinds or shutters and window-sashes; and consists in a combined and adjustable device, by means of which the blind and the window are fastened at the same time, so as to be burglarproof.

The accompanying drawing represents a Vertical section of a window frame, sash, and blind, showing thcapplication of my improved fastenin g.

A represents the window-frame. B is the sash. O is the blind. The sash is made to slide up and down, and the blind or shutter is made to swing on hinges in the ordinarymanner. To the inside of the blind is attached, by means of screws, or in some other substantial manner, the ear-plate D, to which is hinged the fastening-bar E. This bar is made in two parts, F and G, fastened together by a screw, H. One of the parts has a slot, 1, which allows the two parts to be adjusted, by means of the screw, to suit walls of different thickness. The part Gr of this bar extends under the sash,

and is slotted, so as to drop over the stationary hook J, which is attached to the nose'casing of the window. The piece G of the fast ening-bar is turned upward at nearly right angles, and over the nose-casin g, so that when the sash is down, as seen in Fig. 1, the blind is securely fastened by the sash, as well as by the hook J. The bar extends out from the nose-casing, and forms a lifter, K, for convenience in fastening and unfastening. The sash is fastened down by means of the hinged hook L, which is attached to the front of the sash by ear-plate M. As the sash is lowered this hook catches into the stationary hook J automatically, and securely fastens the sash down.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, i

A combined fastening for blinds or shutters and for window sashes, consisting of the adjustable fastening-bar E, attached to the blind or shutter, the stationary hook J in the casing, and the hinged hook L, attached to the sash, when the same are constructed and arranged to operate as described, for the purposes specified.

WILLIAM OSMOND POND.

WVitnesses THOMAS C. BRADY, T. M. MCDONALD. 

